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'Hobbadehoy Rising' A novel by author Max Willi Fischer

In the gritty streets of 1854 Manhattan’s notorious Five Points district, a young orphan named Pencil struggles to survive among thieves, street gangs, and corrupt adults who dismiss him as a mere "hobbhadehoy"—a boy not yet a man. But Pencil has something most have lost in the slums: empathy and an unshakable sense of justice. When betrayal leads to his imprisonment, he finds a second chance on an orphan train to Ohio. Life on the…